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Inertial Compensator

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this small, artificial gravity projector is used in starships to assist a pilot in overcoming the effects of acceleration, deceleration, and maneuvering. It allowed a pilot to put a starship through maneuvers that created intense G-forces, as the compensator kept the pilot from blacking out by adjusting the gravity surrounding the pilot. Gavin Darklighter and Traest Kre'fey discovered that the inertial compensator could also perform another duty. If the compensator's field was adjusted to extend some thirteen meters from its source, protecting an area beyond the shields of the ship, it would actually negate the effects of Yuuzhan Vong gravity weapons. If several starfighters using this double protection ganged up on a coralskipper, the organic ship would actually implode as its onboard systems overloaded from trying to increase power to the gravity wells.